Published May 15, 1989
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Journal article
Symmetry in string theory
Creators
- 1. Department of Physics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6396 (USA)
Description
A general method for determining the target-space symmetries, both broken and unbroken, of string theory is presented. Symmetries are shown to be consequences of a class of automorphisms of the world-sheet operator algebra. This formalism is used to prove general coordinate invariance, two-form gauge invariance, and non-Abelian gauge invariance in heterotic string theory
Additional details
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Physical Review, D
- Journal Volume
- 39
- Journal Issue
- 10
- Series
- Phys. Rev., D.
- Journal Page Range
- 3016-3022
- ISSN
- 0556-2821
- CODEN
- PRVDA
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- United States
- INIS RN
- 20081000
- Subject category
- S71: CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS; S71: CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS;
- Descriptors DEI
- ENERGY-MOMENTUM TENSOR; GAUGE INVARIANCE; PERTURBATION THEORY; QUANTIZATION; SCATTERING AMPLITUDES; SO GROUPS; SPACE-TIME; STRING MODELS; SUPERGRAVITY; SYMMETRY BREAKING; TWO-DIMENSIONAL CALCULATIONS; VACUUM STATES
- Descriptors DEC
- AMPLITUDES; EXTENDED PARTICLE MODEL; FIELD THEORIES; INVARIANCE PRINCIPLES; LIE GROUPS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARTICLE MODELS; SYMMETRY GROUPS; TENSORS; UNIFIED-FIELD THEORIES